Occasionally when I'm feeling appropriately inspired I'll get an idea in my head for an invention. This is a bit of a family tradition as we often would come up with ideas on how to solve particular problems around the dinner table. Such an idea occurred on the way to …

I've been playing about with Last.fm over the last few weeks. The basic concept is you enable your music player with an Audioscrobbler plugin which transmits meta-data^* about each song played to their servers. From this Last.fm can build a profile of your listening habits. From this data …

I left the office very late today. So late in fact I didn't get home until past 11. The feature I've been working on for the last few weeks has been turned on by default in the current baseline and it has exposed a few bugs. I'll hasten to point …

I hatesss it precious. Why you can't just simply specify "put these parameters in these register and the result will be here" and "stack everything I clobber" is a mystery to me. The constraints system is approaching a black art that requires virgin sacrifices to get something that works. And …

I found this diatribe on SciFi films an amusing distraction a lunch time. I found the revelation that Microsoft was negotiating with the UK government about putting back-doors into Vista surprising only in so far as it made it into the news. Here's to the parliamentary process shining a light …